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THE MUDS OF WISCONSIN. 
over twenty were killed. Six of these were procured by Thure 
Kitmlien and preserved. In the past fifteen years we have 
handled but two specimens. One was mounted for a hunter, 
who procured it from a flock of three on Lake Koshkonong 
May (>, 1893! This specimen contained ova the size of an 
ounce leaden bullet. A very large, fine male was also killed 
by L. K. on Rock River in March, 1892. Doubtless it occurs 
more frequently along the Mississippi River than in other 
parts of the state. 
ORDER HERODIONES: HERONS, STORKS, 
IBISES, ETC. 
FAMILY PLATALEID^E: SPOONBILLS. 
Ajuia ajaja (Linn). ROSEATE SPOONBILL.. 
By reference to Rev. A. C. Barry's list of 1854 we find the 
following regarding this species: "Found along the 
Mississippi within the bounds of our state, and occasionally 
about our small lakes in the interior." The sole actual and 
positively authentic record, however, entitling the spoonbill 
to a place in the present list, is from the fragments, head, wing 
and leg, of a specimen procured by Indians at Indian Ford, 
on Rock River near Janesville in August, 1S45, and preserved 
by Thure Kumlien. These remains are still extant in the 
Kitmlien collection. Several early references to the peculiar 
red birds taken or seen in southern Wisconsin no doubt refer 
to this species, but are not authentic. When the bird was 
common and ranged north to southern Illinois, it doubtless 
wandered at times, after the breeding season in late summer, 
to our southern limits, as is the case with other species of 
Herodiones. 
FAMILY IBIDID^E IBISES. 
Plegadis autnninalis (Hasselq.). GLOSSY IBIS. 
Rare straggler, usually in late summer. In August, 1862, 
a collector employed by Thure Kumlien shot one of these 
birds on a large mud flat on Lake Koshkonong. The bird 
fell in tall grass in miry soil and he did not succeed in finding 
it. His description of the bird aroused Mr. Kumlien's curi- 
